Nagesh Bhonsle

Nagesh Bhonsle or Nagesh Bhosale is an Indian television, film and also a theatre actor. He is also a respectable producer and director. He was the co-producer and director of the Marathi film, Goshta Choti Dongraevadhi in 2009, where he also appeared in the main lead role as Nandu. He also directed the films Gallit Gondhal, Dillit Mujra in 2009 and another Marathi film, Adgul Madgul in 2011.

 

Nagesh was born in year 1960 at Nagpur, India. He initiated his career in acting into theatre.  While in college, he happens to watch the play, Aata Manushya Jagne in a competition which was performed by actor Arun Nalawade Arun Nalawade is an Indian Marathi film and theatr >> Read More... . He was impressed by his performance and since then, he gets more interested in theatre. Later, he performed in the play, Kondmara where he played the main lead role. The play won many accolades and he won the Best Actor award. After this, he performed in two more plays from which he also won the same award. Afterwards, he decided to move to Mumbai in the early 90’s. He met Mangesh Kulkarn, a Marathi actor, writer and poet and told him that the casting for Nagmandala. He went to the audition and Bhaskar Chandawarkar selected him. He was also the narrator in the play. Chandawarkar is also in charge in the music of the play and he was given a role in the chorus. He feels so lucky since Vijaya Bai is a big production house and he got the chance to be part of it, and worked with the people with huge experiences in the Marathi stage. He found himself working in a big workshop for acting at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). After the Nagmandala, he works consistently in the Marathi commercial theatre.

 

Sometime in year 1996 or 1997, Nagesh has stopped on performing in the Marathi commercial theatre. He was offered to do the role of Kishan Murari on Zee TV’s Hasratein. Later, he started to appear in many tele-serials like the C.I.D., Bhavar and more. His very first appearance in serial is from Doordarshan channel entitled, Upanyas together with Shekhar Kapoor. That time, Doordarshan is the only channel available and he was new to the television world.

 

He was debuted as a film actor through the Marathi film, Bangarwadi where he essayed the role of Daddu Baltya under the direction of Amol Palekar Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mu >> Read More... . The film became one of the best films in year 1997. Later, he did another film by Amol Palekar entitled, Daayra. In 1999, he was seen in a cameo role in the comedy film, Bombay Boys. And then, Anurag Kasyap introduced him to E. Nivas, the director of the Hindi crime film, Shool from which he appeared as Sudhir Vinod and the Bollywood thriller film, Bardaasht. Nagesh also did Hindi films like D, Sarkar, Kyon Ki Click to look into! >> Read More... , Hostel, Billu, Shiva, Dum and Lal Salam Lal Salam is an Indian talk show hosted by superst >> Read More... . He also did some Marathi films like Duniyadari, Chingi, Vishwavinayak and more.

 

Kishore Kadam Kishore Kadam rose as a playwright and actor in Mu >> Read More... introduced Ramu Ramanathan to Nagesh. They did a play together and they decided to do it in two languages, Hindi and English. Kishore did the English version and he did the Hindi version. They did a play entitled, Angst Angst Coontah Coontah Bhoom Bhaam Dhandhal Dhamaal Kaput. Nagesh received the Best Actor Award from the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) committee for Ramu’s Cotton 56, Polyester 84 and he considered it as a milestone in his career.

 

Besides acting, producing and directing, he is also a good singer. But he says, he was not a trained singer but he is just naturally inclined to music.